skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're actually very stable once you're moving, more so than some other bike geometries and at low speed I can't tell much of a difference. If someone else was used to a different bike design then I can see it might take a bit of adjustment. Once you're used to them they handle better and are more comfortable on long rides than most other bike designs.
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Yeah, this is my favorite thing about stack exchange too.
I loved the early 90s Origin games, they are certainly the ones I remember the most fondly. I spent days in Ultima 7 just wandering around completely aimlessly talking to random NPCs and looting dungeons.

Were you there during the development of Ultima 8 and 9? Not to be rude, but if so what the hell happened there?

Was it simply an emphasis of technology over gameplay and story?

These reviews made me chuckle.

http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/02/01/ultima-7-the-black-ga...
http://spoonyexperiment.com/2012/01/31/ultima-8-pagan/
http://spoonyexperiment.com/2012/05/29/ultima-9-ascension/
Canada in secret negotiations to join global pact limiting Internet rights
Rob Pike - Concurrency Is Not Parallelism [video]
Uber's drivers are, I believe, 1099 contractors. If an Uber driver operates unsafely, the driver and Uber simply sever the relationship, and the driver goes somewhere else.

I'm not sure I buy the story about being pulled over for a suspended license, for a bunch of reasons:

* Over the last 10 years, I've driven more on suspended licenses than valid ones (I'm a very safe driver but I suck at getting my plate sticker updated and suck even worse at actually paying the resulting tickets). I've never been pulled over for having a suspended license, or even heard of someone being pulled over for that.†

* The police in Illinois and, I assume, most other states have strict rules about when they can pull people over (the "primary" and "secondary" offenses). If your car is compliant and you aren't committing a moving violation and you're wearing your seatbelt, what grounds does an officer have to pull you over? Consider that cars are often driven by people other than their owners.

* There are too many valid reasons you can be pulled over. Tail light out. Sticker's a month out of date. Improper lane change. "Not wearing seat belt".

Are you sure you're not confusing "suspended license" with "suspended tags"? Driving on suspended tags will get you pulled over quickly. Illinois will suspend your plates for things like toll violations.

I stand by my assertion: if you're a good driver, and your car is compliant, you're probably pretty safe driving on a suspended license. There is a pretty low probability of getting a relatively stiff ticket, and that's about it. Make sure your plates are good.

† I get pulled over, mind you. Just not for having a suspended license.
1. Of course not! I do a lot of work on things in my spare time - some of that work actually led to this job. But when you're at a place 8+ hours per day, you might as well be learning and growing.

2. Correct, the job is quite stable and all our bills are easily covered. Part of my concern is I'm not making the most of my earning potential for things like savings and retirement and side business/projects.

3. I'm in San Francisco and have literally been contacted by recruiters 2-3 times a week since I arrived here 7 months ago. I don't think finding a new job is an issue. I agree that I'd have to be very careful not to join a sinking ship!
Interesting read but what is becoming clear that there are too many cooks in the kitchen: language, library, OS API, OS and, to some degree, the HW itself. How can you create a usable abstraction if there are so many pieces, each with their own idiosyncracies.
by moto droid do you mean the original moto droid? if so, i'd think by now the 2+ year old handset would be considered low end
Sigh... title got edited... somebody didn't read the article.

This effects desktop windows 8 too not just mobile
Ok, now imagine there are 10 competing Ubers.
Einhorn attacking K-Cups Again
You receive a call at 3 AM from someone in the marketing department, asking if there is a problem with the web site because they haven't seen an order in 20 minutes.

If you could plausibly go 20 minutes without receiving an order, this isn't a question about statistics, it's a question about PR.

Moreover, the kind of place that doesn't take an order more than every few minutes probably doesn't pay someone to be on call at 3am.

And what does the marketing department have to do with this? How is that I am running a web site that is important enough to wake me at 3am because someone isn't sure if there's a problem, yet we don't have any operations people who know the normal working of the system well enough to make the call on when something is broken?

Like most contrived examples of how "important" statistics is in software development, IME, yours makes no sense when considered in a realistic context.

You are thinking of including 30 days of toll free phone support with your next product, and have calculated that for this to work out financially you will need less than 1% of your customers to call support.

Again, in any realistic scenario, that little "to work out financially" probably involves far more complicated considerations than some basic probability distribution, and if this choice is being made by a random programmer based on a simplistic model then you're doing it wrong.
The slides from this talk were posted earlier this year but the video became available just now. Here are the HN discussions on the topic:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4305486

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3837147
did we ran out of business problems that every other app out there is a todo list or shopping list? what problem are you solving that the thousands others out there are not? no sarcasm or criticizing, but really another todo list app? if you manage to explain the difference, you might be on to something.
Sort of, but it's not really a "lock". If, as is very likely in performance-sensitive-but-uncondended multithreaded code, the CPU already has the cache line in "exclusive" (in the MESI sense) mode then the atomic operation needs to be no faster or slower than a standard read/write sequence. On x86 it is serializing, however, which can have performance impacts for some workloads.
The owner of the property is harmed, when they agree with a renter on a contract with specific terms, and the renter then secretly reneges on those terms to take all the profit from the owner's increased risk for themselves.
Ginzametrics (YC S10) Helps Huge Sites Get More Search & Social Attention
I'd like to, but I think if anything I'd donate to Debian first.
In case it isn't clear, prezto is a fork of oh-my-zsh which has basically been rewritten bit by bit to make everything much cleaner and saner. I highly recommend it. The history-substring-search and syntax-highlighting modules are brilliant. You will be the envy of all your friends and neighbours.
Aren't things discrete at the quantum level. Couldn't that be the 'level of discreteness' of the simulation. A bit over my head here, so correct me if I'm wrong.
Great if you never get laid...
Note that if you flag too many dumb submissions, like bitcoin spam and singularityhub garbage, then a mod will disable your flag button.
Global Army of Online Freelancers Remakes Outsourcing Industry
For the record: I acknowledge that you were not wrong in the way I understood you to be wrong; I responded because I got the sense that the thread was now discussing the storage of boolean expression results, and klaxons inside my nerd brain started going off.
If I'm managing tasks, I'd rather use a UI designed for managing tasks (whether they be scheduled/due or not).

The point is that it's easy to dismiss the usefulness of todo systems if you characterise them as a manual-append-only-bucketlists. But unless you're Doing It Wrong, or using a terrible one, that's simply not the case.
Aereo is not a regulatory hack, at least not in the context that the other companies are regulatory hacks. It is a business model designed according to what courts have said is legitimate commercial activity involving visual media. It's not trying to bypass existing rules or regulations; rather, it is very carefully modeled to work within what the courts have stated is appropriate. (It is an open question as to whether courts will deem its business model to run afoul of IP laws.)

AirBNB, Uber, etc., are/were regulatory hacks because they are/were attempting to flout or "bypass" existing rules and regulations in their various markets. In AirBNB's case, rules against hoteling; in Uber's case, rules against unlicensed cab and livery services. The difference from Aero: there are no enabling laws or interpretations of existing laws that actually state that what AirBnB or Uber does is (legally) acceptable, but there are plenty of existing laws and regulations that state what they are doing is not acceptable.
> First: He didn't say that.

You are technically correct, but it was heavily implied but having a problem with this Bundle in particular when HB's usual is games & music. It could have been a bad assumption, but one that would have been easily cleared and one that I was not attempting to argue with so I feel I was intellectually in the clear in making such an assumption, as well.

As for the rest of your post: thank you for the information. The "European intellectual view" is very much a different way of thinking than I am used to encountering. Follow-up question: your post seems to indicate that the primary villain being fought is American pop culture so what of American books? It seems from this thread that they are given the same protection as European books so are they just not considered "evil" or is it that it's worth overreaching to include them if it means saving "real" culture or is there some other mindset at work?
Yet another set nocompatible. In "The Ultimate Vim Distribution", no less.

I can't understand why anybody would want to use that kind of "distribution". All the vimrc tweaking and plugin dance is actually very beneficial in the first few months because it forces beginners to learn a lot of basics and, above all, how to use the help. And, well… experienced users already have a vimrc tweaked to hell and their own set of plugins.
Holy freakin' hell that is an awful headline. This is a DONATION, nothing more. Canonical is not asking people to pay, it is asking people to donate if they are so inclined. The press releases states that Ubuntu is and always will be free.

Use Ubuntu and want to give some money for it? Great. Donate. Now there is a way where previously there was none.

Use Ubuntu and don't want to give money? Great. Don't donate.

Don't use Ubuntu? Carry on.
Can someone please explain the exploit and how it was fixed?
My understanding (confirmed with Mark "phark" Phillips) is that the videos will be available after the fact.

Disclosure: I'm a Basho employee :)
A driver doing something so bad the penalty is incarceration can be incarcerated whether they do it in a traditional cab or a new carservice. Also, accident/citation records are available to insurance companies and others, even for non-commercial drivers.
word, kahawe, you just said what I was thinking.
The smallest plans listed are $7 and $8 a month. Sounds affordable for a side project.
As someone constantly context-switching between a job and academia, I can't imagine how I would get by without a todo list. Mine is just a plain text file that is always open in Sublime from a Dropbox folder, but without it, I wouldn't be able to keep straight when that program in operating systems is due or what I have to do for linear algebra when I've been pairing on new story development or database setup automation all day.
I like, even though there are some similar products he could still launch and compete. Regardless if he's the first, if his product brings something "new to the table" it will be good to see competition in the desk space especially if he can come in at a lower price point.

Remember google wasn't the first search engine.
Ah. Well perhaps the todo list at that point is just another means of procrastination; you feel productive because you're playing with productivity software. A todo list won't motivate you, but it can help keep motivated people organized.
honey...honey, wake up...i need to write an email.
Except Rust, all other languages have theirs. I hardly understand how people can feel offended from jokes such as these.
I am a bit lost here as I am not at all familiar with image processing and the Math behind it. Can someone please shed light?
It looks like AirBnB will already cover some kinds of theft or vandalism. It presumably wouldn't be too hard for them to extend that to personal injury in shared spaces, which would partly address your concern.

Also, the building management company would evict tenants who had troublesome guests, which provides the tenant (AirBnB host) with an incentive to only take people who are reliable.
Because task lists can become a task in and of themselves. It's easy to fall into the trap of constantly "optimizing" (aka bikeshedding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality) the way you manage your to-do list. You try all sorts of different ways to note and sort your tasks, different task list management applications, and so forth, in search of The Perfect Task List. And then later on you look up and realize you lost more time managing your task list than you saved by having it in the first place.
I cant tell if this was a joke or not... EVERY SINGLE post about stripe, the first comment is always "When is stripe coming to X country".
Presenting this screen before you can actually get the OS does not make much sense for new users. They won't know if "hardware support on more PCs" or "performance optimisations" will be any important for them. It'd be more sensible for this to show up as a built-in screen after you've used Ubuntu for a few months.
Ask HN: What apps make your time on a smartphone feel productive?
... other than email.
I wonder if there's a correlation between this productivity feeling and actual price that the app can withstand.
The donation step is optional, so I see no "ethical" dilema here. If you can afford to donate some money to the project you could do it. If not, no problem you should use the product as you see fit.

I suspect that most Ubuntu users can donate 16$ for the project.
It's also my preference but I tend to sit further from the screen than most people I know who use Windows. I find it easier to read from my preferred distance.
I wish I had this when I was doing Android development last year
The 5 reasons why people invest
Presumably your wife's uncle did everything right (credit and background checks) and still got burned. Without being snarky, he might well have had more luck with AirBnB.
You could stick a neon flag on top.

> Each rider determines their own level of acceptable risk, etc etc, but regulation has nothing to do with their lacking adoption for commuters.

That's true. The greatest drawback of my recumbent is the inability to use backpack at the same time. (Sure there are saddlebags, but that's less convenient.)
You missed his point. By regulating cabs, we can easily make the penalties for breaking the cab rules strong enough to deter bad actors. Uber can't.
According to the article (with accompanying screenshot at http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/how-mu...), "Pay what you think Ubuntu is worth" is the text of an actual message (sometimes) displayed to users.
A closer look at Zynga's Valuation (8/12)
Only if everyone loads it the same way. But there are lots of different ways to load GA; the only reason _gaq.push() isn't scary and doesn't raise the specter of race conditions is because of the 'spoofing' GA does.

There are LOTS of different versions of the GA snippet floating around the internet; the assumptions this configuration makes would only work for some of them.

For example, some people load GA like this:

<script async src="//google-analytics.com/ga.js"> </script>
<script>
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
...
</script>

Folks who do this will break at minimum with older browsers that don't support async; not sure what it would do with async support, though.

It seems unnecessarily risky.
I disagree

It isn't buying an item & it isn't donating to something either. Backing a kickstarter project a different sort of thing to both of these.
While there may be some issues with expectations & delivery, there are obviously people that want to back kickstarter projects as is.

My personal feeling is that it lets them have a relationship with the makers of the stuff. Something that is natural to us, based on favours, "moral obligations", expectations, social expectations - something like friendship. Separating "investing" & buying in the way that most of the economy works would miss that whole point. They could just work for & shop at Ikea. It would probably be a better deal. The don't want to because this is.. warmer.
Well, with books it is something different. Authors like Philip Roth or Begley are just too good to be dismissed like that. And the view is always heavily dependent on the medium, so a book is always worth more, has to be really trashy to be counted to be a part of the evil american influence - all the resentments are mixed with the technic fear common in those circles. Which is heavily noticeable when those people talk about pc-games or the internet, the root of societies downfall.
... according to one analyst. Paraphrased from the article: J.P. Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth wrote (Zynga's) assets are worth $2.46 per share... In afternoon trading Friday, Zynga stock was at $2.35.
Straining one's imagination is a bad way to inform policy. Observe, don't imagine.

There won't be 10 Ubers: the reputation angle and network effects strongly favor a few large recognizable operators. And maybe just one!

But even if there were 10: accident, citation, and criminal records are easy to check. Consumers will prefer the branded/authenticated services which self-police most effectively.

Traditionally, this may have been a problem needing regulation: at the moment of flagging a streetcab, the fare was at the mercy of the provider, with minimal authentication/reputation information available.

Now with the modern mobile-dispatched services, this problem is obsolete... like the problem of needing to buy a paper street map when arriving in a new city.
The headline doesn't seem awful considering the actual screen which speaks for itself. http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/how-mu...

Also, it's not a traditional donation in the Mozilla Firefox sense because you cannot deduct it from your taxes because Canonical is a for-profit commercial organization.
Why do you presume it would be easy for them to provide personal injury protection across their entire inventory of rentals? The set of circumstances that led to their particular current coverage of theft and vandalism is worth revisiting.
We called for this when they announced they'd be putting affiliate links in search results, so I'm happy to see it.

I just want to see the affiliate links go away now :)
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It's not a stretch at all, considering it's a partial quote. Read the article before getting into a knot.

If you scroll down you will see a screenshot from Ubuntu which says, "Pay what you think it's worth" which is followed with subtitle text of, "Millions agree that Ubuntu is a great piece of software. But how much do you really think it's worth?"

Nowhere does the article or title imply that you cannot download Ubuntu regardless of your donation. However, Ubuntu themselves has chosen wording which alludes to asking people to pay.
But, in "real programs", all this doesn't usually matter b/c clever JIT tricks with loops and branches fail to offset 5-10x the memory use and the abysmal corresponding CPU cache hit rate.

See "branch misprediction" vs. "fetch from main memory" on norvig's rough timings list: http://norvig.com/21-days.html#answers .
True, the issue in particular with "hardware support" is that the biggest problems desktop users seem to run into with Ubuntu is video drivers for nvidia/ATI and it doesn't seem like there's much canonical can do about those anyway.
Obviously, the implication is to pay what you think it's worth to you. They're not asking for you to pay the entire industrial value of the Ubuntu ecosystem divided by the number of users.
Can't find the post now (think it was on HN or Ars Technica a few months back) but I'm fairly certain "the next big thing" Jeff's working on is re-imagining how a web forum should work.

I hope he cracks it - vbulletin and friends need to die!
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Doesn't give you much though.
App.net user base grows by 25% in 9 days.
I knew your name sounded familiar for some reason, and then I googled you to find you're the creator of TimeScroller (https://github.com/andrewroycarter/TimeScroller)! thanks for building it!
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Optional payment != Donation.

Given that Canonical is commercial I very much doubt that they are even allowed to take donations.
Well thanks! I was happy with how that turned out! I actually have some cool new features / bug fixes in the works on that project!
That definitely does help, I appreciate the tips. As far as the Why Varely sentence at the top of the page do you mean like the home page where the content is you think it should be at the top there?
I made a bookmarklet for easily calculating statistical significance, specifically for this use case.

After enabling the bookmarklet, you click the numbers you need and then it sends it to an A/B testing calculator hosted by the folks who made ABBA

Project: https://github.com/yahelc/ABBA-bookmarklet
Sends to here: http://www.thumbtack.com/labs/abba/
Goodnight, sweet prince: Sealand’s founder dies at age 91
That definitely is a monetization route and incentive that we've considered using to attain users. Going forward with a larger user base that is definitely something we can pursue. The goal is first to get to that user base because obviously now that is the difficult part. Our main concern now is gaining traction and a following. Thanks for the idea, I appreciate the help.
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But the customer remains with Uber. And it's not like taxi drivers drive safe - I rarely take taxis, yet I once had a taxi driver who simply went through a red light after I casually remarked "this light is always red".

Really, you don't "buy" the story? Well it happened, in point of fact. Maybe telling you that said friend works at that binary analysis company in Burlington will provide enough of a connection to let you be convinced that I'm not just making up stories on the Internet for kicks?

This was at night, simple driving with no other cars around. I'm pretty sure the cop actually said that his probable cause was that the owner of the car was unlicensed. We switched places at the cop's direction (after he checked my license) and I drove the car for the rest of the trip.

The cop could have simply been done stopping, caught up to us (their standard speed is 110mph), and lingered next to us to idly run the plates. But at the time it really felt like the plate must have been automatically captured as we drove by.
It seems there was a bug in some profiling code (that was left behind?). This code made it possible to write arbitrary files on the system, which they fixed by removing the profiling code. This is the commit that fixes that: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=...

The SVG exploit was in Webkit, don't know the exact problem with that
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Roberts (Creator of Wing Commander) is back with an incredible space sim
They have been working on it for a while, apparently, you can try it right away http://docs.mediagoblin.org/siteadmin/deploying.html